Clothes-line supporting and manipulating apparatus.



G. F. GOELZ. V CLOTHES LINE SUPPORTING AND MANIPULATING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1914.

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GEORGE F. GOELZ, OF WEST NEW YORK, NEW" JERSEY.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORTING AND MANIPULATING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 29, rain.

Application filed March 12, 1914. Serial N 0. 824,093.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. GonLz, a citizen of the United States, andresiding at West New York, in the county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inClothes-Line Supporting and Manipulating Apparatus, of which thefollowing is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to clothes lines and supports thereof, andparticularly to what are known as window attachments or supports forlines of this class, and which are used in connection with a pole orother supplemental support at a predetermined point or distance from thewindow, and which is provided with a pulley around. which the line ispassed, and the object of this invention is to provide a windowattachment of the class specified involving a pivotally supported armwhich is provided with a pulley around which the line is passed, andwhich may be swung inwardly through the window into a room orcompartment from which the line may be conveniently manipulated in theoperation of placing laundried articles thereon to dry, said arm beingadapted to be swung downwardly and out of the window to permit theclosing of the sash or sashes, after the articles to be laundried havebeen placed on the line, and with this and other objects in view, theinvention consists in a device of the class specified constructed andoperating as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of whichthe accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of.my improvement are des- 'gnated by suitable reference characters in eachof the views, and in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of a windowprovided with-my improvement ;Fig. 2 a partial horizontal sectionthereof;-Fig. 3 a plan view of an arm supporting sleeve which I employ,and Fig. 4 a face or outside view of a bracket attachment which Iemploy, detached and which is shown in use in ig. 1 and in use and insection in Fig. 2.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a, inFig. 1, one side portion of a window or frame in which is mounted topand bottom sashes b and c,

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the bottom sash 0 being shown in a raised position.

In the practice of my invention, I provide a bracket attachment (Z whichis adapted to be secured to the outer face or surface of the side a ofthe window frame, and which is provided with a central tubular bearing05 provided at one end with clutch lugs or projections (Z which arepreferably four in number.

The central tubular bearing (Z is threaded on its inner side and I alsoprovide a bolt 6 having at one end a milled or other head 6 and theopposite end a of which is threaded to correspond with the thread in thetububearing 652, and mounted on the bolt 6 1s a sleeve providedcentrally of one side with a threaded coupling f into which is screwed atube or rod 9 which constitutes the folding or swinging arm of myattachment.

The sleeve f is provided at its inner end with a plurality of clutchnotches or recesses f which correspond with the lugs or projections d onthe tubular bearing (Z and when the sleeve 7 is not locked in connectionwith the tubular bearing d it is free to r0- tate on the bolt 6.

he arm 9 is provided at its free end with an elbow attachment it withwhich is connected a pulley block 2' through which the line y is passed,and in practice, the line y' is also passed through another pulley blockmounted on, or connected with a supplemental support at a predetermineddistance from the window, as hereinbefore set out, said supplementalsupport being not shown.

The elbow attachment h is preferably tubular in form and screwed intothe end thereof is a headed plug 7c, and the block 2' is provided with aring or staple 2' through which said plug is passed, and which is freeto rotate on said plug.

In the construction shown in Fig. 2, the bolt e is screwed home and thesleeve 7 is locked against rotation, and when it is desired that thesleeve 7 and arm 9 rotate on said bolt, the latter is turned to theleft, with the construction shown, and partially withdrawn from thebearing (Z and this operation permits the sleeve f to move or be movedoutwardly, and thus disengaged from the bearing 0?, at which time thearm 9 may be swung into any desired position.

en the line y is not in use, both parts thereof are placed over the bolt6 or sleeve 7 between said arm and the head 6 of said bolt, and the arm9 is swung downwardly into the'position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,in which position the sashes b and 0 may be manipulated in the usual orany desired manner. When it is desired to place laundried articles onthe line 7', the sashes b and 0 are both raised, as shown in Fig. 1, andthe arms 9 swung inwardly and locked in the position shown in saidfigure, and the laundried articles may be the line j, as will be readilyunderstood, by a party standing in the room or compartment within thewindow, and when all the articles have been placed on the line, bothparts thereof are raised and passed over the outer end portion of thebolt 6, after which the sleeve 7 and the arm 9' are swung downwardlyinto the position shown in dotted lines, and when it is desired toremove the laundried articles from the line, the above operation isrepeated, or the arm g is raised into the position shown in full linesin Fig. 1.

My invention is not limited to any exact means for connecting the pulleyblock i with the arm 7', except that, when in use, thefsaid pulley blockmust be supported parallel with said arm to permit of the opera- Copies0! this patent may be obtained for placed on five cents each, byaddressing the tion or manipulation of the line 9 as herein set out, andchanges in and modifications of the construction herein described may bemade within the scope of the appended claim, without departing from thespirit of my invention or sacrificing its advan tages.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is A line supporting attachment of the classdescribed comprising a bracket adapted to be secured to a window frameand provided with a tubular bearing, a bolt one end of which is threadedand adapted to be screwed into said bearing, and the other end of whichis provided with a head, a sleeve rotatably and slidably mounted on saidbolt and an arm connected with said sleeve, said sleeve and said bearingbeing provided with clutch members.

In testimony that-I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 11th day of March,1914.

GEORGE F. GOELZ.

Witnesses C. MULREANY, S. ANDREWS.

Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

